What I learned losing a dog to cancer

“You’re wrong”, I remember telling the vet.  “Nobody in my group is allowed to get cancer.”  Of course, while there are a lot of things I can control in my crew, apparently keeping cancer out of our vocabulary didn’t turn out to be one of them. Despite not spraying my yard, not vaccinating beyond puppy shots, and using only tick medication and wormer sparingly, this is the diagnosis it had come down to.  Somehow, I thought we were immune.

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